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Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in some European countries that also use Eastern European Summer Time (EEST; UTC+03:00) as a summer daylight saving time.
The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use Eastern European Time during the winter only:
Formerly Eastern European Time has been used in the following areas:
Sometimes, due to its use on Microsoft Windows,[3] FLE Standard Time (for Finland, Lithuania, Estonia,[4] sometimes Finland, Latvia, Estonia[5]) or GTB Standard Time (for Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria) are used to refer to Eastern European Time.
Since political, in addition to purely geographical, criteria are used in the drawing of time zones, it follows that actual time zones do not precisely adhere to meridian lines. The EET (UTC+2) time zone, were it drawn by purely geographical terms, would consist of exactly the area between meridians 22°30' E and 37°30' E. As a result, there are European locales that despite lying in an area with a "physical" UTC+2 time, actually use another time zone; contrariwise, there are European areas that have gone for UTC+2, even though their "physical" time zone is different from that. Following is a list of such "incongruencies":
These areas have sunrises and sunsets at least half an hour earlier than places on the UTC+1 meridian.
Russia, Russian language, Belarusian language, Minsk, Ukraine
Kiev, Russia, Sevastopol, Ukrainian language, Ukrainians
Azerbaijan, Turkey, Pakistan, Persian language, Armenia
Western Australia, World War I, Iceland, European Union, Washington, D.C.
FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Rinat Akhmetov, Mircea Lucescu, Donbass Arena, 2009-10 Ukrainian Premier League
Utc, Central European Time, Greenwich Mean Time, Eastern European Time, Nunavut
Switzerland, Russia, Sweden, Germany, Finland
Time zones of Europe, Western European Time, Western European Time, Western European Summer Time, Central European Time
United States, United Kingdom, China, Russia, Hungary